Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s a look at Watergate, the 1970s political scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. June 17, 1972 - ...

Bob Woodward (l) and Carl Bernstein in 2005 at the Harry Ransom Center, which holds their Watergate papers Credit: Photo courtesy of Eric Beggs This month marks the 35th anniversary of the release of ...

WASHINGTON — Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval ...

For 3 months in 1973, nation listened to daily accounts of Watergate break-in, cover-up.

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) - A new book on the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon accuses then-White House counsel John Dean of ordering the infamous Watergate break-in in 1972, a ...

On this day, June 17, in 1972, five burglars were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington. Frank Willis, a security guard at ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - E. Howard Hunt -- organizer of the Watergate break-in and mystery figure in conspiracy theories on the assassination of President John Kennedy -- died on Tuesday at age 88. "He died ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The legacy of the Watergate break-in is one of virulent distrust in the American government, and in some cases aggressive ...

The actors Justin Theroux (left) and Woody Harrelson play G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt in the new HBO miniseries White House Plumbers. The show premieres on May 1. The new five-part HBO series ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley released a newly declassified report suggesting that former President Barack Obama engaged in a cover-up akin to the so-called "smoking gun" revealed ...